Welcome to the poetry page

You will find helpful links for completing your poetry project.

Here are some tutorials for you before you begin. You may go back to these if you forgot what you heard. Just click on the underlined word and it
will take you right there!

Let's begin:

Here is a Brain Pop video about poetry to get you warmed up:
BrainPop Poetry

Step 1: Kidspiration

You will be using a program called Kidspiration to organize your ideas and take those ideas to a word processing program.

Now I would like you to go to Kidspiration and get started.

Don't forget to save your work!

Step 2: Put into Word

Next after you create the word web in Kidspiration you can take your ideas to Microsoft Word, type the poem up and "fancy up" the text. Watch the following to learn more. There is a blank document set up for you to start typing into. Remember to save as before you quit so you can have it available for the next step.
How to take Kidspiration to Word

• Go to the Writing view in Kidspiration.
• Go to File
• Choose Export
• Click on Microsoft Word and Save
• Choose Mrs. Gamel Poetry
• For File name use your name then click Save

Now open this and get started, don't forget to save as to make it your own. PUT YOUR NAME AS THE FILE NAME
Here is a sample of what I did:

Here is a starter page for you if you decided to start in Word first.


DON'T FORGET TO FANCY IT UP!!!!

Step 3: Put into Voicethread

Then you will take your finished poem and upload it to VoiceThread.

Link to Voicethread:
Voice Thread

(Remember your log in information is user name: First Name. Last Name and the password is (you'll have to look up on the board!) :)

In the Voicethread look for Gamel Poetry load your poem here. You can see and hear the My Mitten poem as an example.

Step 4: Voicethread

After it is loaded into VoiceThread, you will perform your poem. You will record your voice reading your poem.

(Don't forget to change to your identity and press stop when you are done...remember listening to people who FORGOT to press stop!)

At the end of the Voicethread there will be a button that says EMBED.

Press that button and choose the the code to copy.

Step 5: Load your Voicethread into our BLOG

1. Go to our BLOG and login under your identity. It is on the menu bar on the right hand side of this page.
2. Press the tab on top that says: Create.
3. Make sure the tab says HTML and then paste the code from VoiceThread into the body of the document. (CTL- V)
4. Logout.
5. You will need to wait for approval in order to be able to see the VoiceThread on your BLOG page.
6.Other students will then have an opportunity to make comments.

Step 6: Celebrate

- You are done!!!!!

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